The wall raised water levels for at least 240 homes in Maribyrnong during 2022’s downpour,including some homes that likely would have avoided inundation if it had not been built.
As climate change increases the severity and frequency of natural disasters,insurance companies face pressure to improve the handling of their claims.
Record downpours led to flooding in central Victoria that damaged homes,cut roads and swamped farmland. These images show how the wall of brown water changed the landscape.
A tropical storm has brought heavy rain to Victoria again,while Melbourne motorists have been warned of challenging road conditions amid flash floods and low visibility.
After two floods in 15 months,residents of the central Victorian town are exhausted and angry,and want an answer to their question:what should be done to protect locals from the next big deluge?
The venerable weather bureau faces difficult questions about its warnings – and its future. What explains its recent high-profile misses?
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has pledged further support for victims of Victoria’s damaging floods as the clean-up continues and some communities remain under threat.
After two floods inside two years in parts of Victoria,insurance experts are concerned flood coverage will become increasingly unaffordable for many residents in the state’s flood-hit communities.
Communities have started the clean-up after the deluge,with at least two dozen properties inundated,but there is still a risk for those in the northern and eastern parts of Victoria.
A man who risked his own life to save an elderly woman who was swept away in fast-moving floodwaters has detailed his desperate attempts to rescue her.
The northern Victorian town awoke to news of the best kind of error:emergency authorities had slightly overestimated the flood peak.